Installation and use of VirtualBox on Mac

First, download and install

Go to Oracle's website to download the Mac version of VirtualBox. Official website: https://www.virtualbox.org/.

　　

Download it and follow the wizard to install it.

Ii. method of Use 1. Create a new virtual machine

Open VirtualBox, the interface is as follows:

Select the "New" button in the upper left corner, set the title and system, if there is no special requirements, follow the direction of the selection of the default configuration is OK, after the left will be a virtual machine option. I chose the win10, such as

At this point, VirtualBox has built the folder and some preset files on the hard disk, the default path of these files is the/users/user/virtualbox VMs, so that the virtual machine has been built

2. Set up the image file, install the system

First find the image file to install in the virtual machine, such as the. iso file, I installed the win10 image, no mirror need to download the corresponding system image on the Internet.

Settings, storage, no platters, select a virtual disc file

　　

Click Start, according to the normal installation operation can be, first see if there is no partition, do not have to do partition. I installed the WIN10, after the installation is completed such as:

　

Third, the matters needing attention

1. Copy and paste

After the system installation is complete, attempts to copy and paste from the host to the virtual machine, drag files and other operations found unable to complete. Also need to do the following configuration

• Menu bar Devices->shared clipboard-> disabled change to bidirectional shared clipboard set to bidirectional
• Menu bar Devices->drag and drop-> disabled change to bidirectional drag set to bidirectional
• Menu bar Devices->insert Guest Additions CD Image: Installing plugins

The following is a demo diagram, because the software is not cut to the menu bar, so the picture does not see the Mac menu bar ...

• Restart your computer

After restarting the computer, the discovery screen can be adapted, the host and the virtual machine can be dragged between the file, you can also copy and paste. Note that for copy-and-paste, the shortcut key for the host Mac is command+c/v, and the shortcut key after switching to Windows is control+c/v. So don't make a mistake. Note the file transfer, to use drag and drop, can not be copied and pasted.

　　

Installation and use of VirtualBox on Mac